everything here attests to a grand
unified plan
a master plan and yet there's something
very perplexing about this plan
we have three pyramids two of which
are almost identical sides and are set
along a diagonal line and yet here's the
curious thing
the third pyramid is much smaller
and is offset to the left of this
diagonal line
why what were the pyramid builders
trying to do.
N:
Bauval wondered if the alignment of the
pyramids on the ground
might be clues pointing to a larger
purpose.
Bauval :
the problem had been like me for years.
and on a night like this
sitting in the desert with a friend of
mine.
he was telling me how the star
series
would rise and then he pointed in the
sky and showed me the belt of orion
right above.
and he said you notice how the three
stars run in the row but at the top star
the smaller star is
slightly offset to the left.
and suddenly
i had it.
N:
Bauval had realized the pyramids might be
a terrestrial map
of orion's belt.
but not as it would have
looked in the skies
in 2450 bc when the pyramids were built
interestingly.
the position of the stars
in the sky
doesn't stay the same century after
century
when viewed from earth the
constellations appear to move.
a phenomenon called precession caused by
the wobbling of the earth on its axis
the movement progresses at a snail's
pace
about one degree over a human lifetime.
Bauval :
egyptologists and students of
eurocliffis ignored recession
but without it certain problems simply
cannot be solved
because it is precession that is the key
that will unlock
the mysteries of the pyramids.
N:
recession appears as a change in
altitude of the stars
from the moment orion rises from its
starting position
11 degrees above the horizon until the
time it returns
takes 26 000 years.
the pyramids alignment with orion's belt
was close
but not exact the nile corresponded to
the milky way in the pyramids to orion
but neither was perfectly matched with
their position in 2500 bc
bauvel looked to other time periods.
Bauval :
now
let's look
at the three stars in the ryan's belt in
relation to the milky way
now in order to get a perfect match with
the pyramids on the ground
the sky needs to be rotated slightly
anti-clockwise
this means going back in time 3000 bc
4000 bc 5000 bc.
N:
the computer follows orion back over the
millennia of its precessional
cycle.
Bauval :
seven thousand
eight thousand nine ten
and in ten thousand five hundred bc
that's when we get the perfect match
it's
absolutely amazing well the whole
arrangement
freezes the time of 10 500 bc.
N:
the pyramid builders made their
terrestrial map to reflect orion as it
looked
and only as it looked in 10
500 bc but why
hancock has a theory he knows sounds
incredible
he likes to speculate that the idea of
the pyramids
was inherited from another culture
one that existed in 10 500 bc
that culture disappeared but somehow
their advanced knowledge of architecture
mathematics and science was passed down
through the ages
with that knowledge the egyptians of
2500 bc
built the pyramids the monuments hancock
suggests are part of a legacy
from a lost civilization.
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